This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: datokok Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.mississippi.counties.amite/1217.1.1.2.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: MAF, Thanks again for your reply. Of course, the information regading the will of John White in Iredell county, NC is public information and contained on various postings made on the internet. I beleive it was even a part of information about the Barker families. On to the Whites in Amite county, MS. Based strictly on research on the internet from various sources which seem to support one another the following emerges regarding the family of Mary White who left her will in Amnite county, MS in 1817. You may have all this, but I wanted to present it here in an attempt to flush out any clues about these Whites. 1) Elizabeth White married John Woodson Kennon, a son of John Kennon and Elizabeth Kennon. John W. Kennon appears to have been born in Granville county, NC April 22, 1780. John died in Amite county, Ms. August 11, 1822. He was a Methodist minister sent to Mississippi as a missionary. Elizabeth White, his widow and their children went to Texas sometime before about 1860 or so. He must have married Elizabeth White in Amite county, Ms. 2) Effie White Deer(Dear)--she was born Dec. 10, 1781 married John J. Dear who was b. 1785 in SC and died in Madison county, MS. She married about 1815 and she died in Madison county, Ms. Sep. 22, 1852. John J. Dear had a brother, Hardy Dear who was a probate judge and witnessed the will of Charles Beck 1823 in Barnwell county, SC. Charles Beck had a daughter Elizabeth who most likely married John Tarver, who was ordained as a Methodist minister in Barnwell counnty, SC in about 1801. John Tarver obtained a land grant in Amite county, ms. in 1807 and was sent to the Claiborne county, Ms. circuit where he initially went in about 1806 before settling in Amite county as per the 1810 Amite county, Ms. census. The Dear family was in Barnwell county, SC in the same time period that Mary White was there. On the 1850 Madison county, Ms. census John Dear, Sr. and Effy Dear are shown. he 65 and she 68. This would place her birth in 1782 which corresponds with the above birth date for her. Her place of birth is reflected only as NC. 3)John Woodson Kennon had a sister, Elizabeth Lewis Kennon, b. May 12, 1783, who married David Lindsay White. He was born 1781 and died 1862. He was a minister. Apparently, Elizabeth died early 1-1-1824. The had children, Pleasant White b. abt. 1820 and David Lindsay White. There are a few citations mentioning Rev. David L. White in Putnam county, Ga in 1817 to 1820 time frame. It would appear that Mary White as shown on the Barnwell county, Sc 1800 census would have the family as conjectured by me herein: 3M 1774 to 1784--Alfred, David, and James all born about 1774-1775, it seems. 4F 1784 to 1790--This may be Elizabeth, Effy, Mary and one other female unknown at this time. Granville county, NC tax lists of 1755 shows a John White and there is a Jonathan White who filed a will there as well. It may be that John White who married Mary was in Granville county, NC for a while. More research is needed in that county. It is somewhat curious that both John Woodson Kennon and his sister, Elizabeth married Whites. As noted above John W. Kennon married Elizabeth White and his sister, Elizabeth Lewis Kennon married Rev. David L. White. Not sure how Mary White is connected to David White, but there must be a family connection. I am unable to link the John White, shown on the Northampton county, NC census in 1790 to Mary White who is shown on the Barnwell county, SC 1800 census with any certainty. The NHT Whites may be connected to the Amite county, Ms. Mary White, but at this point I cannot positively confirm the connection. I do know as stated earlier that a Joshua White and Mary White witnessed the will of James Tarver in NHT county, NC in 1777. This Mary White was in NHT county in 1777 for sure. And a John White and Joshua White are both shown on the 1790 NHT census. I wanted to make these observations in an attempt to clarify/understand the connection of the Whites in Barnwell county, SC and later in Amite county, Ms. to the Tarver families in Barnwell county, SC and later in Amite county, Ms. in the time frame 1785 to 1820 or so and possibly back into Northampton county, NC in the period 1750 to 1800. Cordially, David A. Tarver Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.